Todd Kontje has been elected
to a five-year term on the Executive Committee of the MLA Division on
Late 19th- and Early 20th-century German Literature (2009-14).

Sabrina Starnaman was accepted for the New
Research in Cultural Studies seminar at the CSA in April 2009.

Edwige Tamalet
Talbayev presented a paper entitled Global Encounters:
Trans-Mediterranean Poetics at the Crossroads at the MLA
Convention in San Francisco...
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Shira Scott, Graduate Coordinator. Shira comes to
the Literature Department from SDSU where she has been admitting and
advising graduate Business students for eight years. She was an advisor
at USIU/Alliant University, has taught undergraduate courses, and has
been a housing office administrator. Shira has a bachelor’s and master’s
degree in Communications from CSU Long Beach. Shira lives with her
husband, a Physical Therapist at Scripps Clinic, two children, the dog
Oliver, and Kettana the cat. Shira is happy to join the staff and thanks
all the faculty, staff, and students, who have stopped by to welcome
her. “I look forward to our many interactions in the future.”